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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

McCain, Musk & MSNBC | The Schmidt Storm

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

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News, Politics, Government

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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In the latest edition of "The Schmidt Storm", Steve answers your questions on the future of the White House Press Room, the fate of MSNBC and what John McCain would think of all of it. Subscribe for more and follow me here: Substack: https://steveschmidt.substack.com/subscribe Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewarningses.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SteveSchmidtSES/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thewarningses Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewarningses/ X: https://x.com/SteveSchmidtSES

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Schmidt storm. You got questions? I have answers. It's Thanksgiving weekend.

0:07.0

The shopping is on. Let's get to it. The question is, will Chuck Schumer step down? Will he be forced to step down by colleagues?

0:16.0

And if he does, is there anyone better? Yes. I think everyone is better almost in the Democratic

0:23.4

conference. Chuck Schumer has to step down. I don't know of any other way to say this, but

0:28.5

the Democratic conference of the U.S. Senate should operate exactly like an NFL team. And Chuck Schumer is like an old feeble quarterback who's not good enough

0:41.3

to play in the league anymore. And the reality is, and I don't mean to be brutal about this,

0:47.6

but I don't care about his feelings. He can't do the job. And if I was a United States senator

0:53.6

and I was sitting in that conference meeting,

0:56.0

I would not be belligerent about it.

0:58.0

I wouldn't be cruel about it.

0:59.6

You just can't do the job.

1:01.4

And there are some things more important than Chuck Schumer's ego.

1:05.2

So to my mind, we have just gone on this giant encirclement of the earth, really, this giant journey.

1:13.5

And part of it was pretending or watching people pretend and then getting yelled at by those people pretending

1:20.3

when anybody dared to say the 82-year-old President Joe Biden was not up for the race.

1:26.7

And he wasn't.

1:30.4

And that egotism and that selfishness is why we have Trump in the White House. And Schumer's no different. He's a debacle. Because of his political

1:36.0

strategy, because of how he spent money, because of the chess game he has lost, there are no Senate seats really for Democrats to pick up in 2026,

1:48.8

unless Trump craters to a profound degree.

1:52.1

All of the action will be in the House.

1:54.2

So getting rid of Chuck Schumer from the leadership of the party is really important for the health of the party.

2:01.6

You know, New York voters want Chuck Schumer in there as their senator. Great. But the idea

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